War on women, Virginia edition

posted at 12:01 pm on February 21, 2014 by Jazz Shaw

There they go again. Those nasty old Republicans are conducting their war on women. It seems as if a bright, intelligent lady can’t so much as suggest she’s considering serving her state in Congress without the GOP body slamming her to the deck. Unfortunately for this meme, yet another story – this one out of Virginia and noted by Justin Higgins – shows how the war is in full gear, but it’s being conducted by Democrats. Barbara Comstock (R-Fairfax) had a piece of domestic violence legislation ready to go in the Old Dominion and it had broad, cross-party support. That is, of course, until her opponents realized she was running for higher office.

Delegate Barbara Comstock’s legislation had unanimous support in the House of Delegates, but the Democrat-controlled State Senate had other plans:

The bill, HB1, was introduced by Del. Barbara J. Comstock (R-Fairfax) and would increase the amount of money that can go to victims of domestic and sexual violence and funds for combating those crimes, while also launching a subcommittee to study streamlining the funding process for agencies that deal with the issue.

Sen. Janet D. Howell (D-Fairfax) recommended in committee Wednesday that the bill be carried over until 2015, a motion that was approved on a party-line vote.

Howell and the other hyper-partisans in the State Senate had initially proposed and supported identical legislation, but that died because of “unintended consequences” that needed to be studied. One of those consequences, apparently, was that the legislation could help Comstock’s bid for Congress in Northern Virginia. They couldn’t allow that.

Read the rest of Justin’s article. This is a real piece of work on the part of the Democrats in Virginia. Here’s a piece of legislation which is right in their wheelhouse, and they’ve established a bipartisan push for it. (Aren’t they always talking about how Republicans won’t work with anyone?) And just as they’re getting ready to pass precisely that, they torpedo their own goals just to make sure a Republican woman doesn’t “get credit” for getting something done while she’s running for Congress.

The depth to which the Democrats, state and federal, will go to is no longer surprising. It may have been slightly amusing at one time, now it is just sad, very sad.

The bill, HB1, was introduced by Del. Barbara J. Comstock (R-Fairfax) and would increase the amount of money that can go to victims of domestic and sexual violence and funds for combating those crimes…

We already have all the domestic violence laws that we need, and then some. Violence in a relationship is unacceptable and abhorrent. Having said that, the laws passed presently only serve to create campaign commercials for our morally bankrupt political class and create leverage for women in divorce/custody cases.

I could not care less by whom these bills are authored, they are nothing more than pandering.

Enough of the Liberal ‘War on Women’ B$ – it is time the TRUTH got out, that the ignorant people who take what Democrats say as gospel get an education! The FACTS clearly show who has been waging a ‘war on Women’ for a long while: